Thank you to one of my Facebook friends for posting this! It's a well-made documentary on the Joyce Hatto piano recordings scam. I know we have talked about this story on PS before, but maybe someone new doesn't know about it. It really amazes me how defiant her husband remains! And many of you probably don't know this, but we've had a couple of our own little scams happen right here on our site in the past...That was a lot of fun.

Thanks - didn't know about this. The BBC are going to show a biopic of Joyce Hatto over Christmas. In a peculiar coincidence, her husband will be played by Alfred Molina, who once played John Ogdon onscreen.

That was nice to see, thanks. Nothing new here really, but good to see it presented in a well-made short video, and see the key players in this little melo-drama. What a pity he never signed her up for PS

You can't normally access BBC web video from outwith the UK. Well, you can if you view it via a proxy based in the UK.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJiQWm_y-wthat's a preview clip. Note it's obviously a dramatisation, not a documentary. I wonder who's playing piano?

Archie Chen is indeed the pianist “behind the hands” - in that he provides the music for the film, under the direction of the musical director Niall Byrne. Chen himself is the pianist playing in the film, and he was also charged with teaching the actress Maimie McCoy, who plays Joyce as a young woman, how to play convincingly for the camera. The challenge for Chen was to learn some of the most difficult works in the repertoire in a very short space of time. As Chen himself says of working on the film: “I’m in such a privileged position to be involved in this project……I really relished the challenge of learning the most fiendishly difficult Godowsky Studies…..The hardest part was putting in the mistakes!”.

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